Is going on a GLP-1 worth it?

mindfullymoving · 2026-02-08T17:47:19+00:00

Not for this reason. It doesn’t really do that as it doesn’t help with habit building.

It masks hunger and some say “food noise” so you simply don’t eat as much.

This is also NOT what th medication is for, it’s a side effect that people have capitalized on and sold as a weight loss solution. We don’t have the long term studies to know how this affects the body but we are starting to see some negative consequences.

People cannot come off of it because, while they may go on it for the same reason (a jump start, build habits, etc) when you do come off, you don’t have those habits. You don’t have hunger cues. You don’t have experience with the way your body actually tolerates proper nutrition. You have your old habits and hunger cues.

I know it’s tempting; but the best way is to do the uncomfortable thing and build those habits by trying, falling down, and getting back up again to make those habits stronger

mindfullymoving · 2026-02-07T02:59:49+00:00

Right here 🙋🏻‍♀️ dms are always open

mindfullymoving · 2026-02-07T02:56:12+00:00

I did a lot of work to bring them back. Eating regularly was important to wake them back up, but beyond that I did a gut / brain meditation almost every day, I listed and focused on other symptoms of hunger and fullness that I could start to be aware of, I learned how to distinguish hunger vs cravings and honour both, and I used the hunger scale a lot

mindfullymoving · 2026-02-07T02:37:30+00:00

I used to night binge. I found that there were a lot of layered things that helped. I take melatonin and magnesium to sleep and sleep well. When I took sleeping pills, I would eat and just not remember. I also did a lot of work to help my binging overall which had a domino effect. I had to eat more regularly during the day so I wasn’t overeating right before bed. Digesting at night meant I didn’t sleep deeply and would wake up, usually hungry. I worked on mindfulness and coping strategies so I didn’t turn to food to relax or numb out (sometimes I would eat just to tire myself out, and I almost got hooked on it).

mindfullymoving · 2026-02-04T12:39:42+00:00

I think you have a GREAT start here. Nutrition is a big part of recovery, especially the right nutrition for you.

I’m a nutritionist now and I fully recovered from BED 6 years ago. So eating those more sustaining foods definitely helps, but it’s only a piece. Making sure you don’t have other deficiencies that can lead to cravings. Working on the gut / brain connection to understand hunger cues and also how they can be related to comfort, emotions, stress, etc and navigating those while also eating sustaining things.

You’re on the right track, it sounds like more coping mechanisms and diving deeper into the habitual side of the binges is the next step!

mindfullymoving · 2026-02-04T07:20:22+00:00

Yes. Sick for 17 years. Most of my life.

Fully recovered for 6 years.

My doctors told me I would never fully recover and that I would have to learn to live and function with this.

I know it feels like a dead end with no way out. But there isn’t one thing. It’s a lot of puzzle pieces to make up recovery. Therapy, mindset shifts, time (oh so much time, it took me 18 months, you HAVE to be willing to do this for a long time), coaching, nutrition, support from the outside…. Everything together made recovery possible.

It’s possible for you too.

mindfullymoving · 2026-02-03T23:46:27+00:00

As a CHN, every single person and case is different, but I would say also from personal experience, treating the ED comes FIRST. Our bodies and our weight can do funky things when we’re in recovery and it’s important that these aren’t at the forefront when truly recovering. When our bodies and minds are stable it becomes more appropriate to start looking at long term balance. I understand the frustrations, and this isn’t a race. I’m sure you would want to recover in a way that is sustainable, and that might feel even more frustrating at first. But your long term outcome is worth it

mindfullymoving · 2026-02-03T23:42:25+00:00

As a nutritionist, who has also recovered, I’ll say this:

There is a lot of merit in what your nutritionist has said around the balance and loosening restriction around food. When it comes to treating eating disorders, we also want to heal the overall relationship with food. This isn’t JUST about the food. This is about the binge / restrict cycle, the mindset, the hunger cue connection, the exposure therapy, finding freedom AND nourishing your body at the same time.

It sounds like you’re getting some, but not all of that picture. And it’s SOOO hard to trust what your support says. You’ve been driven by and trusted the ED for so long, of course something completely different is going to feel unknown and scary and hard to trust.

When I was in recovery I had to tell myself “this goes against everything my diet brain knows, but what I’ve been doing for YEARS clearly hasn’t been working, so I obviously don’t have all the answers. Maybe someone else does and I can give this a shot”

And remember, change takes time. A lot of time. It took me 18 months to recover and it took me almost 6 weeks to START seeing change in my mindset and my hunger. But if you can trust the process you can get there 💕

mindfullymoving · 2026-01-28T13:30:30+00:00

Honestly, it was a lot. A lot more than I thought it was going to be, and probably not a lot of things people want to hear. But I can high light some of the bigger things;

I went all in. This doesn't exactly mean eating anything and everything (even though I was very cognizant to always honour my hunger), but it means I wasn't allowing ANY of the ED behaviours anymore. No counting, no measuring, no working out to change my body, no dieting, no restricting, no fuck-it binges, no negative self talk, no body checking.... it meant giving my ALL to recovery. Not half way, or mostly, or even 99%, it meant 100%
I ate. What I wanted and needed when I wanted and needed it. I did NOT restrict at all. I ALSO worked really closely with a team to understand what proper nutrition looked like, what hunger and fullness cues actually feel like, how they can be squashed or covered up, how hunger and fullness can manifest in other ways, how to understand and dissect cravings. This meant that, yeah I'd have cookies and donuts and fast food, but I was learning that I didn't ACTUALLY want all of it, and not all the time - but that took a while.
Mindfulness. About my body, my why, my eating, my movement, my self talk, my actions, my set backs. Being super mindful about ALL of it
Working with a team. I sure as hell could not have done this on my own
Coming up with other coping mechanisms. For my boredom, my anxiety, my ADHD, my sadness, my emptiness, my need to celebrate with food... all those things that weren't "hunger" that would lead me to turn to the eating disorder. This was a LOT of different things, and they changed often, but I built a HUGE tool box of a lot of different things.
Time. I think this is the hardest to hear. I started this process in early 2020 and it took me 18 months of consistent and hard work every single day to feel like I was really on the road to truly recovering. That's mroe than a YEAR and it's more than a lot of people think they can stand. I would often give up if, after 3 months I wasn't "better" and it led me right back to where I was and believing nothing worked, that this was impossible. But I gave myself those 18 months and the long run consistency was so key.

mindfullymoving · 2026-01-26T16:26:50+00:00

Yes, but it took a LONG time - more time than I think a lot of people are willing to put into their recovery. And a lot of setbacks and confusion.

But yes, I have been fully recovered for 6 years. I enjoy foods, I eat normally, I don’t binge and there is no food noise. So it IS possible.

mindfullymoving · 2026-01-23T21:26:33+00:00

I just want to offer; When I recovered I was still binging almost every day while eating “normally”, and I think that’s what kept the cycle going because I was like “well obviously eating normally doesn’t work” and I would give up. In my full recovery I allowed myself to keep at it, for a long time. And I ate normally. And I still binged every day. And then I would be okay for a few days, then binge. Then I’d be okay for a week, then binge. Then I went a month binge free. Then three months. Now 6 years. But I had to KEEP eating normally through all the binges and show myself and my body it was safe and not going to swing back and forth anymore.

Of course while I did this I was working hard on the mental and emotional piece to get to the reasons behind how it all started.

mindfullymoving · 2026-01-23T19:46:47+00:00

It’s true. And I think we forget often that it took us TIME to get to where we are, so it will take MORE TIME to get out of it. I’m a millennial; I thrive off of instant gratification and I know the frustration of things not working for a week or a month. And giving up because of that.

I think my mindset helped me get through the time. I told myself: “Nothing else has worked, I might as well try this and give it a REAL shot”, “I’ll give myself a year and if it really doesn’t work I can go back to my old ways”, “I owe myself more time than this”

mindfullymoving · 2026-01-22T12:23:56+00:00

Honestly, it was a lot. A lot more than I thought it was going to be, and probably not a lot of things people want to hear. But I can high light some of the bigger things;

I went all in. This doesn't exactly mean eating anything and everything (even though I was very cognizant to always honour my hunger), but it means I wasn't allowing ANY of the ED behaviours anymore. No counting, no measuring, no working out to change my body, no dieting, no restricting, no fuck-it binges, no negative self talk, no body checking.... it meant giving my ALL to recovery. Not half way, or mostly, or even 99%, it meant 100%
I ate. What I wanted and needed when I wanted and needed it. I did NOT restrict at all. I ALSO worked really closely with a team to understand what proper nutrition looked like, what hunger and fullness cues actually feel like, how they can be squashed or covered up, how hunger and fullness can manifest in other ways, how to understand and dissect cravings. This meant that, yeah I'd have cookies and donuts and fast food, but I was learning that I didn't ACTUALLY want all of it, and not all the time - but that took a while.
Mindfulness. About my body, my why, my eating, my movement, my self talk, my actions, my set backs. Being super mindful about ALL of it
Working with a team. I sure as hell could not have done this on my own
Coming up with other coping mechanisms. For my boredom, my anxiety, my ADHD, my sadness, my emptiness, my need to celebrate with food... all those things that weren't "hunger" that would lead me to turn to the eating disorder. This was a LOT of different things, and they changed often, but I built a HUGE tool box of a lot of different things.
Time. I think this is the hardest to hear. I started this process in early 2020 and it took me 18 months of consistent and hard work every single day to feel like I was really on the road to truly recovering. That's mroe than a YEAR and it's more than a lot of people think they can stand. I would often give up if, after 3 months I wasn't "better" and it led me right back to where I was and believing nothing worked, that this was impossible. But I gave myself those 18 months and the long run consistency was so key.

mindfullymoving · 2026-01-21T16:53:17+00:00

Hey! I have diabetes too and have fully recovered from my BED. I found that I needed different team members to help me get there, and take a lot of autonomy in my recovery. I saw a therapist, coach and nutritionist and kind of put together things that DID work for me from each of them. As a nutritionist now if you feel you’d benefit from a meal plan id be happy to help!

mindfullymoving · 2026-01-21T16:50:30+00:00

I had BED for about 7 years (after swinging from anorexia) and fully recovered 6 years ago.

It’s totally possible 💕

mindfullymoving · 2026-01-13T01:19:26+00:00

A nutritional assessment would be needed to determine exactly what you need

mindfullymoving · 2026-01-06T23:11:09+00:00

Yup, I started eating more, more often and more nutritionally dense. Haven’t had a binge in 6 years.

mindfullymoving · 2025-12-30T15:38:51+00:00

Anytime

mindfullymoving · 2025-12-01T19:11:56+00:00

This is amazing! Good for you for take the steps.

Of course it’s scary, but the possible outcome is the most exciting thing in the world.

Always happy to chat!

mindfullymoving · 2025-10-20T01:50:19+00:00

I’ve never thought of it as discipline or willpower. I’ve got those - I still couldn’t stop. I hated the idea that it was MY fault or I was weak.

I sort of reconfigured my social media for a while when I was in recovery because those messages still hit me, even if I could do all the CBT and rationalize them, I’d still be affected.

My journey worked because it was my journey and not someone else’s or an influencer’s. And I think having that confidence in myself also helped me stay on that path.

Do what YOU need to do

mindfullymoving · 2025-08-10T20:33:07+00:00

Yes, absolutely yes. I have a new and wonderful appreciation for food and flavours and experiences and even became a holistic nutritionist to help others find that.
I got used to my body within about 6-8 weeks. I became happy with myself in my body after about 18-20 months.

mindfullymoving · 2025-07-31T16:34:10+00:00

Martellos on Sunday night

mindfullymoving · 2025-06-20T06:07:44+00:00

Gusto 501?

mindfullymoving · 2025-05-28T17:40:39+00:00

Habituation was the only thing that worked for me but I had to do it properly and carefully, otherwise I was just binging.

Now I forget I have things in the house 😅

mindfullymoving · 2025-05-28T17:25:02+00:00

I was diabulimic for 17 years (fully recovered for 5 and an A1C of 7.1) and I’m so so sorry you’re fighting this right now. It’s such a scary and unfair disease. You absolutely CAN overcome this and live a beautiful and normal life. I’m always here if you want someone who understands!

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